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Observability Day San Francisco: The Future of AI and Observability Is Bright
September 18, 2025
Ken Rimple

Ken Rimple

Observability Day San Francisco: The Future of AI and Observability Is Bright

AI and observability are no longer separate conversations—they’re deeply intertwined. Across keynotes, panels, and demos, speakers at Honeycomb's Observability Day San Francisco unpacked what that means for engineering teams today: faster insights, smarter tools, and new challenges to solve.

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Observability
LLMs
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April 7, 2022
Michael Simo

Michael Simo

Top 5 Takeaways From GDC 2022

The Game Developers Conference (GDC) is a yearly event that brings together leading brands in the gaming industry to talk about trends in development and showcase new features and releases. One of the cool…

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January 19, 2022
Evelyn Chea

Evelyn Chea

ICYMI: Honeycomb Developer Week: The Partner Ecosystem

We know that you value collaboration. That’s why we share incident reviews and learnings—because we believe the entire community benefits by working together transparently.  In the spirit of working better together, we invited ecosystem…

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December 20, 2021
Evelyn Chea

Evelyn Chea

ICYMI: Honeycomb Developer Week Wrap-Up

Getting started with observability can be time consuming. It takes time to configure your apps and practice to change the way you approach troubleshooting. So it can be hard to prioritize investing time, especially…

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December 1, 2021
Evelyn Chea

Evelyn Chea

Hone Your Observability Skills at Honeycomb Developer Week

Is the lack of time holding you back from sharpening your observability (o11y) skills? Maybe you’ve dipped your toes into o11y, but you’re not sure how and where it will drastically improve your team’s…

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October 14, 2021
Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)

Jessica Kerr (Jessitron)

The Magic of Metrics—and How It Can Burn You

As product developers, our responsibility continues beyond shipping code. To keep our software running, we need to notice whether it’s working in production. To make our product smoother and more reliable, we need to…

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Metrics
o11ycon
June 3, 2021
Charity Majors

Charity Majors

The Least Worst Online Conference Ever

I am sick of online events. I can barely rouse myself to give a shit about one more virtual conference. They all start to feel the same … the same 45-minute pre-recorded talks, over…

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o11ycon
May 25, 2021
George Miranda

George Miranda

Nine Reasons to Attend o11ycon+hnycon

You’ve probably seen the announcement about our upcoming annual conference, o11ycon+hnycon, happening June 9–10. If you’re still not registered, here’s a list of nine reasons to attend. 1. Highly interactive content Honeycomb isn’t your…

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o11ycon
May 13, 2021
Evelyn Chea

Evelyn Chea

Learn About the Future of Shipping Software at o11ycon+hnycon

Have you registered for o11ycon+hnycon yet? If not, now’s the time! This highly interactive virtual event is happening June 9–10 and designed to connect you with your peers to explore cutting-edge observability practices. We’ve…

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April 2, 2021
George Miranda

George Miranda

o11ycon+hnycon Call for Presentations

In case you missed it, Honeycomb is gearing up for our conference, o11ycon. Based on your feedback, we’re also adding a new day to that event this year: hnycon. o11ycon+hnycon is a two-day virtual…

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HoneyByte: Get a Taste for Sampling
July 23, 2020
Shelby Spees

Shelby Spees

HoneyByte: Get a Taste for Sampling

Honeycomb’s event-based pricing model is pretty simple: we only care about how many events you send. For teams running workloads at scale, the question becomes: are all of my events worth keeping? How can you reduce overall event volume while maintaining fidelity? This HoneyByte is all about sampling strategies you can use to lower costs without sacrificing the value of your data.

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HoneyBytes
Sampling
Free as in Honey
April 28, 2020
Megan Gleason

Megan Gleason

Free as in Honey

Starting today, you can use more of Honeycomb than ever before for free. That means more teams can start building up production excellence with features that were previously only available for paid subscribers.

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Product Updates
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April 25, 2019
Rachel Perkins

Rachel Perkins

Metrics vs Events: A Conversation About Controlling Volume

If I’m used to metrics, how should I think about events in Honeycomb? This question cuts to the heart of how Honeycomb is different from other vendors in the APM and metrics space who…

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Metrics
Sampling
understanding metric analysis and apm vs logging
December 20, 2018
Nathan LeClaire

Nathan LeClaire

Metric Analysis, Application Performance Monitoring, and Log Management: Where Does Honeycomb Fit In?

If you’re involved in improving the performance of your application, you’ve probably heard about application performance monitoring (APM), metric analysis, and log management. But you might not understand what they are or the differences…

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Logging
Metrics
Observability
Tracing
what happens when you put a tarpitting proxy in front of one of our Beeline example apps
September 18, 2018
Ben Hartshorne

Ben Hartshorne

The Honeycomb Beeline for Go v2 is…Go!

We’ve seen folks do amazing things using our Honeycomb Beelines–getting their apps instrumented in next-to-no time, expanding their observability, growing their understanding of what is happening in their code in production. Now, prepare to…

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Instrumentation
Product Updates
Structured Logs
June 26, 2018
Ben Hartshorne

Ben Hartshorne

How Are Structured Logs Different From Events?

We’re all collectively trying to define observability (“o11y,” pronounced “olly”) these days, and, as Honeycomb is sometimes described as an event-based observability product, trying to define all the other words that go around o11y…

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Instrumentation
Logging
Observability
How to Use NLog for Structured Logging
January 25, 2018
Guest Blogger

Guest Blogger

How to Use NLog for Structured Logging

We’re grateful for this guest post from Tim Wilde! You can find the source code for the examples he uses in his github repo. Strings are where data go to die There you go;…

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Instrumentation
Logging
Observability
inigo montoya: let me explain/sum up
December 7, 2017
Charity Majors

Charity Majors

The Price is Right

Here at the hive, we’re working on something that isn’t code or new features(!), but is a big part of our business notwithstanding: figuring out the best way to help people understand how we…

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Metrics
looking back through the rear-view mirror
November 14, 2017
Charity Majors

Charity Majors

Best Practices for Observability

Observability has been getting a lot of attention recently. What started out as a fairly obscure technical term, dragged from the dusty annals of control theory, has been generating attention for one simple reason:…

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Instrumentation
Observability
janeway says not bad!
October 17, 2017
Eben Freeman

Eben Freeman

You Could Have Invented Structured Logging

Sometimes we hear from folks who are a little bit intimidated by the notion of structured logging. Some common issues: There’s no approachable library for structured logging in my language. My logging today is…

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Instrumentation
Logging
Observability